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My husband and I purchased the two-pound roaster back in 2010, and it has performed flawlessly, until this last December.

We originally had a small roaster that performed well, but only cooked a cup of beans at a time. Sadly, I lost my husband 5 years ago, but I still roast a couple times a week for friends and neighbors.

Once it was determined we needed a new sensor, you folks sent out a new one almost immediately, despite the Xmas holidays. I can’t tell you how thankful all my coffee drinking friends are, most of all, including me. You folks are the BEST. It’s working again, like a charm.

I recently purchased a second home in Florida, and haven’t decided whether to take the small roaster along, or buy another one from your company. Certainly, you’d be my choice, if I want another big one.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I paid full price for my 2lb Sonofresco Roaster with ADR because my Gene Cafe broke down and I needed a replacement ASAP. That was a year and 3 months ago and I have to say I just love it! What a bargain at 20% off. I like the 2lb roaster because I always have fresh coffee to take to dinner parties or give as a present. Most people don’t know what fresh coffee tastes like so it is a unique gift. One of the best purchases I have ever made along with my espresso machine 🤓☕️

For the past 3 years I have been home roasting my last green bean purchase was from you. I have been quite happy with your beans they have roasted very well. I have been using a Whirley Pop popper to roast them. The roast level I have been using is between city roast and french roast. I just finished roasting a Ethiopian Yirgacheffe at City Roast Plus we shall see how it tastes tomorrow morning. I am also playing with sous vide cold brewing. It gives you a cold brew coffee in about 2 and one half hours. and tastes great either heated or cold. I am hoping to be able to afford a real coffee roaster sometime in the near future as I would like to start selling fresh roasted coffee at farmers markets.

My wife and I started our downtown cafe in Cambridge, ON Canada 3 months ago. We have been using a 1 lb roaster and have already roasted over 100 pounds. These machines are work horses! We are able to keep an entire shelf of roasted coffee stocked fresh all the time and still have time to roast for the cafe itself. If you keep to the maintenance schedule it stays clean and runs great! Customers love to watch it whenever they come in and the roasting fragrance always brings people in off the street too. Were looking forward to adding another roaster to the cafe once we need it. Customers have commented on it’s taste and have said it produces a nice lively cup of coffee over other traditional roasters in the area.

I want to pass on to you a compliment. Our serviceman (who maintains and repairs our Verissimo Espresso Machine) has maintained ever since we started buying our beans from you that in his 20 years of installing and repairing espresso machines, he has never seen crema as nice as what our beans produce. Our customers are so pleased with our espresso and I tell them all about your company and how you had a world renowned coffee expert come in to come up the various blends that we use. Thank you for doing what you do so well!

As the oldest chandlery in the Pacific Northwest, you’d expect Marine Supply & Hardware of Anacortes, Washington to have a wide array of merchandise, but freshly roasted coffee? When Sonofresco’s first Coffee Roasters came out in 1999 (then called “Syd & Jerry’s”) the chandlery provided parts for the prototype machine and added freshly roasted coffee beans to their inventory. Boaters and fishermen love to get their coffee roasted while they wander the store aisles and locals call in to place their orders too. Owner Steve Demopoulos remarked, “Folks on vacation tried our coffee and now have us ship it to their home back east.”

Good luck with the show [Coffee Fest – Seattle 2010], we will be there in spirit as one of your loyal customers. We bought one of the first units in mid 2001 and have roasted almost 17,000 pounds (10-20# a day now) for a lot of great people. We roast when they call and deliver anywhere! (in the city we live in). Customer service is the key, something you do well! Thank you all at Sonofresco.”

The Sonofresco team couldn’t be more welcoming and informative. They demoed the 2-pound machine for us, showed us around the assembly area and warehouse, and patiently answered all our questions. This gave us the confidence to purchase the machine then and there, and bring it home to Victoria.

Campbell’s Coffee & Tea was founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The owners, independent of one another, were washed across Lake Pontchartrain to Covington when their houses flooded after Katrina. Campbell had researched the business of coffee shops and Elizabeth had been teaching about Latin American coffee before they met. They opened as a micro-roaster of specialty coffees in 2006 and have carved out a niche market of discerning coffee consumers. They have built the business primarily on their house blend of Latin American Arabica beans, but occasionally will roast single origin beans and new blends for special occasions.

Part of the mission of Campbell’s Coffee & Tea is to raise awareness of the important part the New Orleans region has in the history of coffee in this country. They were trailblazers in the New Orleans Coffee Fest. Part of what they put on display is their Sonofresco 1-lb. Roaster. Roasting beans on site is a huge draw. Both potential customers and seasoned roasters can’t help but reveal their curiosity and surprise when they watch the fairly simple roasting process. Both Campbell and Elizabeth are fanatics about the Roaster and the quality in each cup of Campbell’s coffee that micro roasting allows.

13 years ago, Blue Heron started out with a 1-lb Sonofresco Coffee Roaster. As the company has grown, so have the number of Sonofresco Roasters in the shop. The company now owns 3 Sonofresco Roasters: 2 x 2-lb roasters and a 1-lb roaster, roasting approximately 300 pounds per month. Blue Heron’s owner commented, “..adding Sonofresco Roasters to his business rather than converting to a larger roaster model made perfect sense. Sonofresco roasters are affordable, require minimal overhead and space, are easy to use and maintain, allow for small batch roasting, and produce freshly roasted coffee made to order for the customer.

I thought I would send this link to an article about us in the Vernonia’s Voice, a local paper for our area just west of Portland.  Our Sonofresco got 2 pictures in the paper.  We are featured on the front page and there is a great picture of my wife roasting on a 2lb Sonofresco in the article.  My wife and I started Keturah Coffee Roasters here in Vernonia with our Sonofresco.  We were originally going to start with a drum roaster and I was hesitant to go with a fluid bed.  I am so glad we changed our minds.  We love this little machine!  We added the ADR to ours with which we have been able to produce some wonderful roasts for our customers.  This Sonofresco is a workhorse for us.  When we have needed Help, the customer service at Sonofresco has been amazing.  Everyone from the receptionists, sales reps, to the technicians are very kind, helpful, and knowledgeable not only about the machine but about good coffee.

Here is a link to our article.

http://www.vernoniasvoice.com/2015/10/17/keturah-coffee-roasters-artisan-coffee-crafted-in-vernonia/